In the most adverse conditions that could be imagined, the brave Venezuelan people represented in the millionaire Bolivarian and Chavez militancy and other forces integrated to the Broad Front of the Homeland, has granted the president once again elected, Nicolás Maduro, an endorsement of votes regarding to the other contenders and to the electoral roll superior to the one obtained in their respective elections by the rulers who are today the most critical of Venezuela.

The electoral figures of Venezuela are compelling:

67.78% of the voters ratified Nicolas Nicolás as president.

6 million 157 185 voters supported the candidate of the Broad Front of the Fatherland-

45.99% of the voter registry went to the polls this Sunday.

9 million 261 839 electors attended the official meeting.

1.9% of the votes were null.

21.01% of the votes were obtained by the opposition candidate Henrique Falcón (Advanced Progressive, Movement to Socialism and the Committee of Independent Political Organization.

Granma outlines ten of the destabilizing actions made public in the last 48 hours against the legitimate government of Nicolás Maduro.

Maduro received three-times as many votes as his closest rival for the presidency, Henri Falcón. Photo: El Confidencial

While thousands of people gathered around Miraflores Presidential Palace to greet the re-election of President Nicolás Maduro, opposition sectors, the United States, the European Union and the Latin American right launched a predictable destabilization plan against the most recent democratic electoral process undertaken on Sunday, May 20, in Venezuela.

The Venezuelan people, victims of one of the most brutal economic wars of recent times, only comparable to the blockade imposed on Cuba for more than 50 years, re-elected Nicolás Maduro as their legitimate President with more than six million votes.

Meanwhile, the “protectors of democracy” in the region and the world reactivated their hostile agenda against the homeland of Bolívar, and ignored the clear message emitted at the polls.

The Venezuelan government, accustomed to this type of action since taking a different path to that dictated by Washington in 1998, once again faces a wave of interference in its internal affairs.

When the Venezuelan elections are held on May 20, much of the world’s media, trailing the U.S. Department of State, will have already denounced the elections as “non-democratic” before they have even taken place.

Mainstream media in the United States repeatedly called for early elections during the months of Venezuela’s violent guarimba protests in 2017. A State Department official said March 29 of last year that “President Maduro… should hold elections as soon as possible.”

However, when the National Electoral Council (CNE) actually called said elections, these same voices changed their tune.

The charges are rather predictable.

A Washington Post headline proclaimed the elections were “terrible news for democracy.” The New York Times claims the elections are intended only to “tighten Maduro’s grip.”

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, speaking to the Organization of American States (OAS) called on Venezuela to suspend its elections, only months after having clamored for them to be held. Pence claimed “it will be a fake election,” and a “fraud and a sham.”

Venezuela and South Africa have made progress on an agreement, which will facilitate the trading of pharmaceuticals and other goods. The deal, which will also see the two country exchange expertise in the areas of education, agriculture, and mining, was discussed Tuesday by Jose Gregorio Vielma Mora, Venezuela’s Minister of Foreign Trade and International Investment, and Joseph Muzi Khehl, South Africa’s Ambassador to the South American country.

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(P L) Venezuela”s Government is readying its mightiest and fearsome force to repel an aggression against the country, the militia, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino wrote in Twitter.

Made up of 300,000 members, the National Bolivarian Militia (MNB, in Spanish) is deployed across the country and it is feared by the US Southern Command who are worried about getting bogged down whether they decide to attack Bolivar’s homeland, according to comments by their own analysts, Padrino stressed.